“Everyone asks the first question, ‘Why Mesa?,’ ” he says with a laugh. Why Mesa? It’s a question Antao, whose company is in its eighth year of hosting the Jersey Shore Festival, is used to fielding. Throughout the weekend, at least 250 artists will perform, some traveling from as far as New York City and Japan. Pinfield’s keynote address is Friday night. But I love the idea that it’s about discovery.” Of course, these things have to grow, and this is the first year. "It gets to the point where the bigger a music festival is, the less it becomes about new artists and them having an opportunity to be seen. “It’s the idea of returning it to the artists, making it more a place of discovery," he says. “Now, it seems more than ever, it’s about bands that are already signed going there to showcase as opposed to bands who are unsigned and looking to be discovered.”īuilding a music festival with an eye toward recapturing the thrill of discovery is part of what appealed to Pinfield when his friend Joseph “Indian” Antao approached him about launching a festival in Mesa.
“But it’s gotten so big,” he says of SXSW. Keynote speaker Matt Pinfield, a pioneering alternative-radio DJ who may be best known in the mainstream as the host of MTV’s “120 Minutes,” has been to going to Austin for years in a variety of roles, hosting events and scouting acts for Columbia Records as vice president of A&R. The organizers of this weekend’s Mesa Music Festival hope that’s how people come to see their event. The post Music Keynote T Bone Burnett’s Powerful Keynote Speech appeared first on SXSW.Remember when music geeks and industry professionals flocked to Austin, Texas, for the annual South by Southwest Music Festival not to catch headlining sets by Bruce Springsteen or Prince but for the thrill of seeing unsigned bands before they made it to that level? T Bone Burnett – Photo by Adrianne Schroeder And as always, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and SXSW News to stay current with all things SXSW. You are equal to the task.”ĭive into SXSW 2019 Photo Galleries from March 8-17 including sessions, screenings, showcases, and more. “There are laws against phone tapping, yet on the internet, all communications are tapped, at all times, with impunity.”Īfter delivering a thorough analysis of the malicious disarray of our current tech industry peppered with well-placed jabs at industry luminaries, who he referred to as “surveillance capitalists” and “digital gangsters”, Burnett recited the poetry of Czeslaw Milosz and made an important call to action, “The goal of art is to create conscience.
The artists are our only hope.”įor the SXSW community, who had been deep in discussions, many of which were centered around future technologies throughout the week, Burnett’s remarks added a thoughtful and resonant layer to the conversation. Artists contain the accumulated knowledge of generations. The music icon wasted no time discussing his legacy and fully utilized the ballroom stage to fire a shot across the bow at technologists that he described as “lacking humanity”. Just moments before Facebook and Instagram went down for hours on Wednesday, March 13, 10-time Grammy-winning producer, songwriter, and Keynote Speaker T Bone Burnett sounded the alarms about the dangers of deregulated tech platforms. “Satan is a very great electric engineer.” – Keynote Speaker T Bone Burnett at SXSW 2019, referencing media theorist Marshall McLuhen
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